Some of the thin drives have soldered USB interfaces instead of a SATA port, not sure about the fat ones. Do your research on this model to confirm what you may get.

>>107875016
2.5" ones are a bit cheaper but i dont really want one
this one is 3.5" and should not be soldered but the connector is different i'm just curious if anyone's done it on this specific one

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>>107874982
>$30/TB

>>107874982
>moving parts
pass

>>107875056
i'm not in the US but even in the US WD drives start at like $25 which is close enough
i could buy 2 refurbished 4TB ones for the price of one 6TB i guess
they're more expensive since flash is expensive now

>>107874982
Enjoy your catastrophic disk failure and losing everything

>>107875016
>>107875036
>should not be soldered
It's not "soldered" as in USB to SATA, it doesn't have a SATA connector to begin with; the controller board is natively USB

>>107875148
wdym
>>107875150
yeah no shit thank you for being hypercorrect

>>107875156
Spinning platters and moving parts. You'll be lucky to get 3 to 5 years out of it, less if you run it 24/7.
>3-5 years is a long time
Naw, it's really not.

>>107875181
thank you for clarifying i almost thought i was missing something but youre just that retarded

>>107875197
Not him. But he is right. You are the retard if you think you're going to get long term use out of an HHD.
You're probably poor and looking for validation on buying shit (because that's all you can afford).

It should work. There might be an issue where you might have to use tape to cover some pin but that's rare, or only for super old motherboards.

>>107875287
or i'm gonna plug it in every 3 months and do a backup
get the fuck out of my thread you immaculate retard

>>107875352
>Poor screeched out in pain as he's called out
Sure you are dumbass, sure you are

>>107875392
you want a cookie or something?

>>107875394
You're welcome. It's why I always avoid OPs that say "don't buy this", it usually means they have a product to shill.
Also, you don't need a USB cable on the controller board; all HDDs use SATA internally (unless they're very old) and the only thing the USB connector does is let you plug in externally. The same cannot be said for a USB/HDD which actually uses it as storage.
>no one has ever done this before!
It's not rocket science, anon.

>>107874982
I can tell you with absolute certainty that it works with the 1TB WD My Book I bought in 2010. It's currently in my fat PS2 filled up with games.

>>107875413
He's just poor as shit. What he's really looking for is
>Excellent buy anon!
>Good choice!
>You're killing it with that one, good deal!
That what he wants to hear, because he's poor as shit and that's all he can afford.
He's like those retards in cell phone general who shill their $20 chink phones because that's all they can afford and they validated for owning shit phones no one in their right mind would buy on purpose

Why not just buy larger drives?

16-24TB are ~$19-25/TB

>>107875413
>all HDDs use SATA internally
this isn't even true lmao you have 0 clue what youre talking about
are you really that starved for attention
>>107875446
i have $500 worth of ssds in my PC
>>107875463
and do what with them?

>>107875446
Based. You know it's true by how he reacted when that anon pointed out HDD drives don't last long with heavy use.
He didn't want to hear that, he wanted positive reinforcement.

>>107875483
>and do what with them?
Presumably store data.

I don't understand why you'd need 4-6TB, but can't fathom a need for 16-24TB.

thanks for the heads up OP, just bought a 22TB drive. I will amass as much entertainment as possible before everything becomes cloud-only

>>107874982
shucking does work but you need to make sure you get the correct models
i wouldn't do it unless there are post online about dudes shucking your exact model
for example i shucked a couple 14 tb easystores for my server and there were a bunch of videos of guys shucking those exact drives on youtube, so it was really easy

>>107875181
I have a 2.5 inch WD Blue HDD in my laptop that's been running pretty much nonstop since 2017. It just depends what happens. The thing about HDDs is that they don't have a specific lifespan like SSDs do so they can potentially just go forever if you're lucky.

>>107875497
i'd need a nas for that since i can't handle noise

>>107875287
>Not him. But he is right. You are the retard if you think you're going to get long term use out of an HHD.
>>107875181
>Spinning platters and moving parts. You'll be lucky to get 3 to 5 years out of it, less if you run it 24/7.
I've seen ide drives last 20 uears on continual in access conrol boxes running win 95 I don;t thinl I'v e eveer had a desktop frive fail, I've seen loads of bought used enterprise 10K san drives fail after years but 10K drives tebded to do that ayway. Really rare for a 72000 sata hdd to fail, never seen it. I think your bullshitting zoomer retards or giving you the benifit of the doubt trying to compare 10K fibre san drives in raid arrays for years continuously writing.

Unles syou cook it in some stupid box of fans egg cooker desktop HDDs last gen SATA hdds will last decades. I'd avoid used 10Ks though just based on my experience with them sitting on a raid fibre san under a very busy 24/7 database. Even then they lasted years and years and years

>>107875487
>Based. You know it's true by how he reacted when that anon pointed out HDD drives don't last long with heavy use.
I'm sorry lads not that anon but you are wronng. I don't even know where you got that idea from. I have seen not just one but many ANCIENT boxes doing stuff like swipe card access o win95 through to a building control box running fucking OS2 in a cupboard for 25 years. I've NEVER had a HDD fail on me at home EVER.

There are two possibilities here. You are retarded and build PCs that generate stupid amounts of heat (probable) and kill hard drives or...you have had exposure to enterprise sans and think that is something to do with desktop HDDs. If I had to bet which would fail first a HDD or a SDD I'd go with an SDD (man, they were brutal for failure when they first came out)

>>107874982
>any WD 8TB or lower shuck likely to be SMR shit
>$30/TB
yes the bare hdd will work, but may have 3.3v pin you gotta remove. best is to use a molex to sata pwr adapter, but get a hard plastic one and not plastic injection molded one.

>>107875627
Just kapton tape pin 3, no need to physically remove the pin.

You can honestly just kapton tape the first 3 pins, just don't cover the 4th pin or beyond.

So what do I get? I wanna dump files and movies into a large storage

>>107875659
are you op? from my brief glance over your thread it seems like you don't even need to shuck the thing if you're just using it as cold storage. just get a wd of the size you want, or maybe size it up a bit to future proof

heat kills hdds
speaker msagnets kill hdds
power surges kill hdds (use surge ptotected power strips)

here endeth the lesson. If you live in arizona with no aircon and stick 4 in some gaymer box with a fan heater gpu and some retarded water cooled crap in a box you designed yourself using your grifter youtube engineering skills and then overclocked everything because ya know youtube grifters and stuck the box between two bif speakers yo, them, ya, hdds fail.

>>107875659
>So what do I get? I wanna dump files and movies into a large storage
External Hard Drive Enclosure For 5.25 Inch SSD USB 3.0 and whatever the fuck you want to put in it. Or you can get a little consumer san raid 1 box with some redundancy and put two drives in it mirroring.

>>107875181
A few weeks ago I retired the 500gb hdd that I bought in 2010
Almost fifteen years, not a single hitch

>>107874982
>Drop it once
>Cry

>>107875816
I still have some 500gb drives alive too, but I also got dead ones of the exact same brand.. (wd blue)
When it comes to HDD's right now, I only buy WD Gold or hgst (bought by wd now) ultrastar disks
Sure they cost more but at least come with some guarantee they will live for 5y